8 Activities for Kids with Lids

Here’s a quick and easy way to create eco-friendly games for kids with reused lids. We put together eight fun activities with lids for kids to play with just for you!

If you’re like me you love the convenience fruits and veggies in the squeezable food pouches for babies and tots for when you’re on the go, but you feel bad about wasting the plastic with the lids.

I’ve found a solution for you! We collect our lids and then have free manipulatives to play and learn with at home or on the go.

Perfect Activities for Preschoolers!

Activities with Lids for Kids

With a lid you can…

Build a Tower

Make a Pattern

Sort by Colors

String a Necklace

Play Tic Tac Toe

Practice Counting

Create a Design

Paint Designs

Eco Friendly Tip: Keep the Lids of Jars

You never know what else you can discover and create with your child!

Teaching your child about Recycling

Reuse a large container to keep lids in for your child. It helps to get your child involved with recycling in your home. You’ll be surprised how they start to look for reusable lids in everything. When you’re all done with the lid, don’t forget to RECYCLE it!

(As with all small items with Children under 3, lids should only used under direct adult supervision. The rule at our house for older siblings is that items that can fit in a toilet paper tube are choking hazards.)

Ask around, you never know there may be a friend or neighbor who used them with a small baby and doesn't have the need for them just yet since the pieces are too tiny for babies. We have purple milk caps that are lots of fun to build and paint with too.

Thanks Vicky for pinning! I saved them only because of big sister's intereset in them. I was thinking this would be a great sibling craft in school, having bigger kids bring in lids from baby and toddler food containers. What a variety you could collect for a classroom or playgroup. Altought I see lots of Kindergarten lunch boxes with them still. Great way to get in those veggies and fruits.

Thanks Shonda! Keep your eye out, we'll be posting a few more ideas for your son too very soon! Keep them in a big container, trust me he'll love finding lids for you and it leads into great recycling conversations too.

Thanks! I'm sure there are lots of other ideas too and I hope to create some more as we love those organic fruit/veggie mixes too for on the go. You'd be surprised how many Kindergarten Lunch boxes I see with them at school too.

You can collect lids from everything. Laundry detergent, milk, juice, sauces lids …the list goes on. Then you have more colors and sizes. I got the foam papers once…which were all colors and let the kids sort them by color. You can also make homemade checker boards…..